Estella Branham Diggs, a Woman of Faith & Action
A world-traveling missionary, musician, teacher and civil rights leader, Estella Diggs is a woman even 21st-century women can aspire to be like.Read full piece
Lottie Moon’s church led by a woman
Last year, Southern Baptists gave $149.3 million to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions, hailed as the third-highest amount in the offering’s 124-year history. With less fanfare, meanwhile, the iconic missionary’s childhood church quietly voted to call its first-ever female pastor.
CBF nominates woman leader
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Adversity turns woman away, then back to God
Raised in a family of alcoholic men. Tortured and raped as a teenager by a stranger. Boyfriends who cheated. A pastor who made a pass at her. Stalked by an unknown man. And finally, an abusive relationship that left her alone with a small
Woman to lead American Baptists in Indiana, Kentucky
INDIANAPOLIS (ABP) – Soozi Whitten Ford, an ordained minister and longtime American Baptist leader, has been named executive minister of the American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky.
Betty Cox will be first woman MBCH trustee chair since 1939
BRIDGETON -- Betty Cox will make history when she steps up as trustee chair for the Missouri Baptist Children's Home -- a spot no woman has filled in 70 years. Though she admits she's a bit nervous about her new role, she already has thought
Louisiana woman finds hope through Christian Women’s Job Corps
Danielle Flintroy described her life as "a complete mess" before arriving at Christian Women's Job Corps. She is this year's recipient of the Sybil Bentley Dove Award, which is given annually to a current or former CWJC participant who advances herself through life
Church withdraws from association that ousted woman pastor
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (ABP) – A North Carolina Baptist association that expelled a church last summer for naming a woman as pastor lost another prominent member congregation Dec. 4.
North KC woman turns life around, helps others
What one sees on Loni Sojack's face, after they notice her smile, is the tremendous scar over her left eye. What one doesn't see until they visit with her for just 15 minutes is the healing of a very scarred heart. Now through the grace
Trafficking: False promises, desperation lure woman
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) -- With five children to feed after her husband died “Rebecca” faced dreary prospects in Cameroon.
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